I finally visited the “artist village” I heard a lot about this summer, they have used the buildings of the old shipyards in North Amsterdam. You can get there on a free ferry that goes over the IJ. Now it is getting pretty popular, the Amsterdam MTV headquarters moved to the island as well as student housing made out of old shipping crates…there is now a waiting list to build your own studio there if you don’t want to share a space, but you don’t have to worry about rain and it’s a place for all creatives…architects, performing artists, jewellers…whatever floats your boat. There is also a skate park which has been built in the air so no space is waisted. They hold festivals and parties (in the bottom right picture the chess piece looking thing is a speaker that you can plug an amp into) it was exiting to go check out, there should be more places like this everywhere! here is their site: http://www.ndsm.nl/index.php?pg=0&subpg=3
